In 1899 he astonished Widor by explaining figures and motifs in Bach's Chorale Preludes as painter-like tonal and rhythmic imagery illustrating themes from the words of the hymns on which they were based.

The manifest purpose of the tale may primarily be one of mundane instruction regarding forest safety or secondarily a cautionary tale about the dangers of famine to large families, but its latent meaning may evoke a strong emotional response due to the widely understood themes and motifs such as “ The Terrible Mother ”, “ Death ,” and “ Atonement with the Father .”

Moreover, as Jan Brunvand pointed out antecedent legends including some of the motifs, themes and symbolism of these urtexts can readily be identified.

Here the authors make an explicit connection between urban legends and popular folklore, such as Grimm's Fairy Tales where similar themes and motifs arise.

An example of themes, motifs and symbols from the Divine Comedy ( ca.

In Der fliegende Holländer Wagner uses a number of leitmotifs ( literally, " leading motifs ") associated with the characters and themes.

These three works have several characteristics in common: they are scored for an extremely large orchestra ; they use Russian folk themes and motifs.

Lichtenstein's Still Life paintings, sculptures and drawings, which span from 1972 through the early 1980s, cover a variety of motifs and themes, including the most traditional such as fruit, flowers, and vases.

: Although these films have contemporary American settings, they utilize Old West themes and motifs ( a rebellious anti-hero, open plains and desert landscapes, and gunfights ).

Fargnoli and Gillespie argue that " various themes and motifs throughout Finnegans Wake, such as the cuckoldry of Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker ( a King Mark figure ) and Shaun's attempts at seducing Issy, relate directly to Tristan and Isolde [...] other motifs relating to Earwicker's loss of authority, such as the forces usurping his parental status, are also based on Tristan and Isolde.

Geometric shapes, stars and flower motifs are the most common themes.

Celtic themes and motifs also appear in the tales Island of Women ( in which he travels to the Other-world ) and in an English romance entitled The Marriage of Syr Gawayne.

After designing book covers for Gothic and science fiction book cover commissions they did while in Philadelphia, the Quays have created suggestive designs for a variety of publications that seem to reflect not only their own interests in particular authors, covers for Italo Calvino, Louis-Ferdinand Céline or Mark le Fanu's study of the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, but also in themes and motifs that these authors develop.

The Second Overture on Russian Themes shows an increased sophistication as Balakirev utilizes Beethoven's technique of deriving short motifs from longer themes so that those motifs can be combined into a convincing contrapuntal fabric.

For example, modern social events still have similarities to traditional initiation rituals, and modern novels feature mythical motifs and themes.

However Pākehā artists such as Colin McCahon and Gordon Walters have also incorporated Māori motifs into their art, and a number of early Pākehā writers used Māori themes and topics in an effort to create an authentically New Zealand literature.

Following themes going back to Rush's second album, Fly by Night, on Hemispheres lyricist Neil Peart continues to heavily utilize fantasy and science fiction motifs.

This encyclopedic reference volume examines the strip's themes, character studies, quotations and motifs.

Following the 1971 suicide of his lover George Dyer, Bacon's art became more personal, inward looking and preoccupied with themes and motifs of death.

The recurrent motifs of androgyny, death, masks, dreams, vampires, satyrs and religious themes, so typical of the art of the French and Belgian Symbolists, find full expression in Spare's early work, along with a desire to shock the bourgeois.

Four additional themes are heard in the " Jupiter's " finale, which is in sonata form, and all five motifs are combined in the fugal coda.

While the stories that attach to the sites of legend tripping vary from place to place, and sometimes contain a kernel of historical truth, there are a number of motifs and recurring themes in the legends and the sites.

The important motifs presented in this story arc can be found in a variety of war dramas: loyalty, courage, and the significance of individual actions.

More than most sagas, Gísla saga makes use of motifs from the Eddaic poems, in particular by referring to Guðrún Gjúkadóttir to represent old ways of vengeance and family honor.

" The characters and motifs of fairy tales are simple and archetypal: princesses and goose-girls ; youngest sons and gallant princes ; ogres, giants, dragons, and trolls ; wicked stepmothers and false heroes ; fairy godmothers and other magical helpers, often talking horses, or foxes, or birds ; glass mountains ; and prohibitions and breaking of prohibitions.

The early association of silk serge, Greece, and France is shown by the discovery in Charlemagne's tomb of a piece of silk serge dyed with Byzantine motifs, evidently a gift from the Byzantine Imperial Court in the 8th or 9th century AD.

The motifs are commonly those of Germanic mythology and some are believed to be Germanic pagan icons giving protection or for divination.

While this is not the classical myth of Orpheus, the poet shows substantial ingenuity in merging the Orpheus of mythology, who tries and fails to obtain the return of his wife Eurydice from the underworld, with the traditional fairy motifs of the fairy raid or hunt, the fairies ' otherworldly kingdom, their attempts to abduct mortals, and the magical transformations endured by those who are captured by them.

Two other similar motifs are the Cup of the Narts (" Nartyamonga "), which appeared at feasts, delivered to each person what he liked best to eat, and which was kept by the bravest of the Narts (" Knights ")-somewhat similar to the Grail-and the magical woman, dressed in white, associated with water, who helps the hero acquire his sword, similar to the Arthurian Lady of the Lake.

In the kolam patterns, many designs derived from magical motifs, abstract designs and philosophic and religious motifs have mingled together.

The decorative motifs were generally bordered scenes: people, mythological creatures, real animals, rocks, vegetation, and marine life.

By the sixteenth century Assiswork had become more popular and employed a wider range of motifs, many based on Renaissance imagery of satyrs, demons and ancient mythical creatures.

Pysanky with spiral motifs were the most powerful, as the demons and other unholy creatures would be trapped within the spirals forever.

With powers and motifs based on creatures such as the Triceratops and Wolf, the Mighty Morphin Blue Ranger is still one of the most popular in the franchise thanks to Yost's commitment to the role ; Billy never switched colors or passed on his power coins to successors like the rest of the original cast.

As early as 1875, he began to work in earnest with a " Persian " palette: dark blue, turquoise, manganese purple, green, Indian red, and lemon yellow, Study of the motifs of what he referred to as " Persian " ware ( and what we know today as fifteenth-and-sixteenth century İznik ware ), profoundly influenced his unmistakable style, in which fantastic creatures entwined with rhythmic geometric motifs float under luminous glazes.

Khmer motifs use many creatures from Buddhist and Hindu mythology, like the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, use motifs such as the garuda, a mythical bird in Hinduism.

Animals were important to the natural appeal of the garden, so stone animals and animal motifs were common as well as actual fish, birds and other creatures.

Eastern tribes have a completely different beadwork aesthetic, and Innu, Mi ' kmaq, Penobscot, and Haudenosaunee tribes are known for symmetrical scroll motifs in white beads, called the " double curve.

The religious architecture of Angkor has characteristic structures, elements, and motifs, which are identified in the glossary below.

The most common motifs in the amino acid sequence of collagen are Glycine-Proline-X and Glycine-X-Hydroxyproline, where X is any amino acid other than glycine, proline or hydroxyproline.

These restaurants are typically decorated with Islamic motifs such as pictures of Islamic rugs and Arabic writing.

Patterns and motifs are coarser with thicker yarns and produce bold visual effects, whereas thinner yarns are best for refined or delicate patternwork.

Many crocheted items are composed of individual motifs which are then joined together, are by sewing or crocheting, whereas knitting is usually composed of one fabric, such as entrelac.

The putative sequence motifs A, B, and C of the polymerase domain are located near the C-terminus in family A Pol and more central in family B Pol.

Easter customs vary across the Christian world, but attending sunrise services, exclaiming the Paschal greeting, clipping the church and decorating Easter eggs, a symbol of the empty tomb, are common motifs.

" Frieze of Life " motifs such as The Storm and Moonlight are steeped in atmosphere.

His lyric skills however are not just confined to individual poems: " A play of Euripides is a musical whole ... one song echoes motifs from the preceding song, while introducing new ones.

Many scholars also doubt Petrine authorship because they are convinced that 1 Peter is dependent on the Pauline epistles and that is was written after Paul ’ s ministry because it shares many of the same motifs espoused in Ephesians, Colossians, and the Pastoral Epistles.

Garden of Eden motifs most frequently portrayed in illuminated manuscripts and paintings are the " Sleep of Adam " (" Creation of Eve "), the " Temptation of Eve " by the Serpent, the " Fall of Man " where Adam takes the fruit, and the " Expulsion ".

By far the most exquisite and obscure artefacts unearthed to date are the small, square steatite ( soapstone ) seals engraved with human or animal motifs.

Patterns and motifs are coarser with thicker yarns ; thicker yarns produce bold visual effects, whereas thinner yarns are best for refined patterns.

Although some of the miniatures are framed by simple rectangles with corners embellished by the golden castles and lions of Castile and León, other are framed by medieval Spanish architectural motifs, including Gothic and Mudéjar arcades of columns and arches.

Metals typically consist of close-packed atoms, meaning that the atoms are arranged like sphere Two packing motifs are common, one being body-centered cubic wherein each metal is surrounded by eight equivalent metals.

Other SH3 binding motifs have emerged and are still emerging in the course of various molecular studies, highlighting the versatility of this domain.

Usually the motifs are animals and flowers in colourful and repetitive design.